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Topic: Clouds, my first serious time-lapse! (Read 5275 times)

The technique of time-lapse has always fascinated me a lot, and I decided to create my own, which shows the world where I was born and where I live, where I take refuge when I want to spend some relaxing time with these landscapes that have nothing to envy to any place on earth.

I tried to look with different eyes.I tried to remember the most beautiful places I know, then I have searched for new ones.I waited for the right day and the right time for each shot.I spent more than 5 hours to take pictures manually, without the intervallometer.I took 3205 pictures in RAW, for a total of 55Gb.I spent over 20 hours on the computer to process RAW files and to assemble the video sequences.I spent three days listening to hundreds of audio tracks to find the right one.

The technique of time-lapse has always fascinated me a lot, and I decided to create my own, which shows the world where I was born and where I live, where I take refuge when I want to spend some relaxing time with these landscapes that have nothing to envy to any place on earth.

I tried to look with different eyes.I tried to remember the most beautiful places I know, then I have searched for new ones.I waited for the right day and the right time for each shot.I spent more than 5 hours to take pictures manually, without the intervallometer.I took 3205 pictures in RAW, for a total of 55Gb.I spent over 20 hours on the computer to process RAW files and to assemble the video sequences.I spent three days listening to hundreds of audio tracks to find the right one.

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There is some aperture stepping though (the soft contrast flicker) apart from the visual artefact this will also wear out your aperture diaphragm electronics and blades.

Easy fix for next time.

Set your shooting aperture, depress the aperture preview button then de-couple your EF lens and twist it 1/3rd away from the lock.

This breaks the contact with the lens, locks your iris in position yet the lens is still mounted.

Obviously AF and IS are also disabled, but these should be switched off for timelapse anyway.

Also, don't bother shooting RAW. Way to time consuming.

I also find that the 180 rule works very well in timelapse, so that your interval between shots is double the exposure time.

I like to use 0.5 or .8s (just before the NR kicks in, I could disable NR but knowing me I would forget to re-activate for my stills) and an interval of 1 or 2s.

This really helps soften the subject motion, I thought the ripples closest to the camera were just a little crisp for timelapse.

I'm really not having a go, your first attempt is 10x better than mine was. Hopefully some of the stuff I've learned the hard way -partiuclarly with EF system quirks- can help your progression, and I look forward to seeing your next attempts.

Not bad for a first try, but dude did you seriously sit there for 5 hours being a human intervalometer? You have nice lenses, is there a reason you wont buy an intervalometer? Because it will make your life A LOT easier. I wish I could make "a lot" even bigger to stress how much easier. And you can get them cheap and I think there are even a few DIY methods that would be close to free. Please for the love of god get an intervalometer.

Are you struggling with money at the moment? If so let me know, I seriously might buy you one. The thought of you standing there with a stopwatch in one hand and and your other hand on the camera is killing me.

There is some aperture stepping though (the soft contrast flicker) apart from the visual artefact this will also wear out your aperture diaphragm electronics and blades.

Easy fix for next time.

Set your shooting aperture, depress the aperture preview button then de-couple your EF lens and twist it 1/3rd away from the lock.

This breaks the contact with the lens, locks your iris in position yet the lens is still mounted.

Obviously AF and IS are also disabled, but these should be switched off for timelapse anyway.

Also, don't bother shooting RAW. Way to time consuming.

I also find that the 180 rule works very well in timelapse, so that your interval between shots is double the exposure time.

I like to use 0.5 or .8s (just before the NR kicks in, I could disable NR but knowing me I would forget to re-activate for my stills) and an interval of 1 or 2s.

This really helps soften the subject motion, I thought the ripples closest to the camera were just a little crisp for timelapse.

I'm really not having a go, your first attempt is 10x better than mine was. Hopefully some of the stuff I've learned the hard way -partiuclarly with EF system quirks- can help your progression, and I look forward to seeing your next attempts.

Thank you Click. For others who are also getting error messages, if you go to (and click on) "Clouds on Video" at the bottom left of the screen (underneath it actually), the very interesting time lapse video will play. I thought the music selction went superbly well with what was a delightful "first effort". I certainly hope to see many more.

Are you struggling with money at the moment? If so let me know, I seriously might buy you one. The thought of you standing there with a stopwatch in one hand and and your other hand on the camera is killing me.

Yeah, that's painful to even think about. I'll pay for half that intervalometer if you want to go dutch on it.